If it makes you feel better, Charpentier is using it in the sense of "inspires terror". So you're basically communist batman, haunting the ruling class from the shadows.
Soviet anthem: Eb major. Cruel and hard :lenin-fancy:
Canadian anthem: C major :kanada:
Chinese: anthem: G major. Serious and magnificent :mao-shining:
Gwyndolin's theme from dark souls 1: F# minor. Too queer and ethereal for 17th century music scholars
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i think that long ago pianos and piano-like objects were tuned to a common key just intonation, which quite unlike our modern equal tunings mean some keys are very in tune and others are very not in tune. that would mean that someone composing on piano would hear these sorts of differences quite literally. so, that said, b minor.
Was about to say, feel like shit just want unequal temperment back.
It was actually the advent of the piano that got us equal temperment tho
say it anyway. the workers of the world could engineer a piano that allows independent tuning of individual strings, simply because it would be beautiful. kind of surprised i haven't heard of that actually, i guess most people would rather get an electronic piano at that point.... idk i think a self-tuning, tunable piano would slap.
Adam Neely often retunes his electric piano to get cool effects
Edit: Here's another example where he does it. How to make Microtonal Lo-Fi Hip Hop
Also, he has a video entitled "Music Theory and White Supremacy", which is neat for a music youtuber to do.
Yeah that's accurate. I'm surprised how kind some of these descriptions are. A lot of these keys would sound like garbage.
Charpentier's tunings were probably closer to a well-temperament rather than a just-temperament so he could modulate more easily, though probably one different from Bach's (who himself varied temperament depending on things like the construction of the organ/harpsichord/piano)
oh that's interesting. anyway, i think sibelius also had opinions about the character of the different keys, and probably some others. just-temperament is just too interesting not to bring up.
This is a trick chart because any real musician knows no one has ever actually played anything in B Major. It's purely theoretical.
